8o A HISTORY OF PEAK FOREST. 



Woodwards. — The name denotes the office. A woodward 

 ought to appear at every " Justice Seat," and wlien he is called 

 he must present his hatchet to the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre." 



Concerning t^e (gtg^^a of f 3e Soresfere of 0ea^, 



{'■'■Duchy of Lancaster Records,^' P.R.O., Class 25, Bai;^. F., Ro. 51.) 



Bailliwick of Campana, Anno 13 Edwd. I. (a.d. 1285). 



John Daniel, Thomas le Archer, Thomas son of Thom. 

 Foleiaumbe who is now within age and a ward of our lord 

 the King in the custody of Thomas de Gretton, Nicholas 

 Foleiaumb who was in the custody of Henry de Med we and 

 is now of full age, and Adam Goumfray. And their ancestors 

 were enfeoffed in the time of William Peverel, who was lord of 

 the Peak. 



John Daniel, Forester of Fee of Campana, holds a bovate 

 of land in WurmhuU for the custody of his bailiwick by sergeanty, 

 and nothing has been alienated thence since the time of the first 

 feofment. It is worth 3^ per annum. 



It was demanded from the said John what rights pertain to his 

 bailliwick. He said that he ought to have housebote, and hay- 

 bote (wood for repairs of house and fences), out of the woods 

 of the King for the repairs of his houses of sergeanty when 

 necessary by view and delivery of the chief stewards of the Peak 

 and of their foresters and verderers, viz. , of oaks for the repara- 

 tion of his house in which he dwells, and for the repair of other 

 houses of the same sergeanty and ^' Botilic" and "■ Alnet" ''• 

 and that he ought to have his pigs nourished in the said ser- 

 geanty free of pannage in the Royal Forest of Peak. And also 

 pasture for his cattle nourished in his land of sergeanty in the 

 King's pasture in his bailliwick when that pasture is sold or 

 allotted by the bailif of the Peak. And in the time of masting 

 when the King has agistment in tlie said bailliwick, he and his 

 fellow foresters ought to have a pig of his own choice out of the 

 swine which the lord has in agistment. And that he ought to 



* ? Decayed wood and Alders. " Bolum et alnse." Vide Du Cange. 



